Elephants are the largest land animal in the world (the biggest was four meters high and weighed 11,000 kilograms).

They eat around 130 kilograms of leaves, grass and fruit per day.

They are intelligent (with a brain three times bigger than a man's).

They have skin 2.5 centimetres thick.

Elephants sleep for three to four hours a day and

can swim for six hours(one swam for 48 kilometres.

An interesting fact about elephants is that they are scared of bees.